September 28

What’s It Gonna Be? Episode 16.09 – Status: World Still Insane

Recorded 18/09/’16

Intro: Met investigates filmed confrontation between driver and police officer

Part 1:

Slack

The Church of Subgenius

Trump’s Bad Day Gets Worse As He Gets Called Out On $5 Million Birther Promise (politicsusa.com)

Trump on Fallon (YouTube)

Southpark – We’ve Been there (YouTube)

Louis Theroux My Scientology Movie (IMDB)

Richard Herring Leicester Square Theatre Podcast with Tim Minchin (YouTube)

Bill Hicks Sane Man

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Part 2:

Football!

The County County

The day Croke Park opened up to rugby and soccer

The Black Doctor!

Daoine Gorm

History of Ireland (800–1169)

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wins Expanded Halt to Pipeline Construction

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Part 3

Dagenham & Redbridge FC

Respawn Responds to Harsh Titanfall 2 Feedback

Alan McInally

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July 19

What’s It Gonna Be? Episode 16.08 – Catch ‘Em All!

Recorded 18/07/’16

Intro: Occupy Democrats Facebook page – anti-racism educator Jane Elliot

Part 1

Baton Rouge officers ambushed by gunman (Guardian)

Rare pokemon appears at Cnetral Park (Cnet)

“Why They Didn’t Fire Is A Mystery” – Coup Pilots Had Erdogan’s Plane In Their Sights And Did Nothing (zerohedge.com)

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Part 2

LARP

Pokémon Go

Steampunk Pikachu (Deviantart)

Music:

Part 3

How old is Ash Ketchum (YouTube)

No studio? No problem. Meet Prince Harvey, the man who secretly recorded an album at the Apple store (Guardian)

George W. Bush’s jovial jig at Dallas memorial turns heads

The Brexit minister David Davis thinks the Republic of Ireland is part of the UK (New Statesman)

British politicians back Trident renewal (RTÉ)

Ian Paisley Jr urging people to get an Irish Passport (Twitter)

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June 8

What’s It Gonna Be Episode 16.06 – Schrödinger’s Taoiseach

Recorded 06/06/’16

Intro: An Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Dáil Éireann on the 8th Amendment

Part 1:

Rabbit/Duck graph (Imgur)

Enda Kenny (Wiki)

The X-Case (Wiki)

Ms Y (Wiki)

Death of Savita Halappanavar (Wiki)

Micheál Martin has called me a dozen times or more” (Irish Independent)

Homeless woman talks to European Parliment (evoke.ie)

Luke “Ming” Flanagan – TTIP Reading Room (TheJournal.ie)

Lucinda Creighton’s Vulcan Consulting (solocheck.ie)

Walter Lippmann (Wiki)

Torches of Freedom (Wiki)

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (Good Reads)

The Sexist History Of The Public Restroom (allday.com)

Music:

Part 2:

The Lack of Equal Bathroom Access for Women Is a Global Design Flaw (citylab.com)

Is Trans Broken arm Syndrome Actually A Real Thing? (unicornbooty.com)

North Carolina: Woman Kicked Out Of Ladies’ Bathroom By Police After Being Mistaken For Transgender (worldnewsdailyreport.com)

Higher education: guide to consumer rights for students (gov.co.uk)

Sam: Steal This Article (Dublin Enquirer)

Irish Whales (Wiki)

Ladies GFA behind viral ‘Ladyball’ campaign (RTÉ)

“Blood” (YouTube)

Music: 

Part 3:

Swedish Hero Recounts Nabbing Stanford Rapist Brock Turner (NBC News)

Man who tore out his girlfriend’s hair in front of their son given suspended sentence (TheJournal.ie)

Lenient Sentencing (An Cailin Rua)

Food producer jailed for six years in Ireland’s biggest garlic scam yet (Joe.ie)

Parentline.ie

National Masturbation Month (Huffington Post)

ScarletTeen.com

SpunOut.ie

Skirts Are Getting Shorter And That’s Bullish For The Economy (Business Insider)

Ferengi (Memory Alpha)

The Information Age is over; welcome to the Experience Age (Tech Crunch)

Durex #CondomEmoji (YouTube)

Censorship Board can’t be abolished until it deals with Alan Shatter’s ‘Laura’ (TheJournal.ie)

What Dirty Dancing Taught Me About Abortion (Huffington Post)

8 Banned Books in Ireland (Abortion Rights Campaign)

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May 10

What’s It Gonna Be Episode 16.05 – The Sticky Toffee Special

Recorded 08/05/’16

Intro: Requiem for an American Dream  – Noam Chomsky (Netflix)

Part 1

Would we be better off without the state? (Irish Times)

Peter Kropotkin

Gangnam Style

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Part 2

100 Irish Garda Against 100 Irish nuts (queen’s visit 2011)

Irish Census

Music:

Part 3

Celibacy in the Catholic Church: a brief history

Abortion Rights Campaign

Stone Cold Steve Austin on Social Justice

Teaching your child at home (I looked it up)

Overwatch

Flash

Shalke buys an e-Sports team

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April 18

What’s It Gonna Be? Episode 16.04 – Goodbye Mr Nice

Recorded 11/04/’16

Intro:
Marks and Ifans: Mr. Nice Interview Late Late Show, RTÉ 1.

Part 1

Goodbye Mr Nice.

Water Bears

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Danny MacAskill

Naomi Klein – No Logo

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Part 2

D’Unbelievables

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner

Denis Skinner Suspended for ‘dodgy Dave’ comments

#GrownUpPolitics – Green Party 2016 Party Election Broadcast

Why Did This School Make Female Students Wear Longer Skirts?

Alan Moore’s Lost Girls

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Part 3

Petrocurrency

Current UN Peacekeeping

History of Gunpowder

Tom Murphy’s Fireworks in Malta

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March 24

What’s It Gonna Be? Episode 16.2 – Phantom Limb

Recorded 21/03/’16

Intro:
Full Press Conference with U.S. Student Otto Frederick Warmbier in North Korea

Part 1

Escape from Camp 14 on Goodreads

Free Ibrahim Halawa

Music:

Part 2

The Phantom Limb Project on Twitter

James Young on Twitter

Santa Strike Force

Music:

Part 3

GODHATESDISCO

AdBusters Corporate Persons article

The Corporation full documentary

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March 3

What’s It Gonna Be? Episode 16.1 – Election Fever

Recorded March 1st 2016

 

Intro
Eamon DeValera St Patrick’s Day Speech, 1943

Part 1

Christopher Hitchens – No One Left To Lie To

Famine Roads

Ghosts of Aleppo

Flat Earth Update

Don’t Insult

Dave Allen – God’s Own Comedian

Fr Ted invades Over The Top Wrestling

Music:

Part 2

William DJ Gorman manifesto

Music:

Part 3

Vinay Gupta’s Hexayurts

Dublin Goldsprints

George Redmond’s Death Marks the End of an Era

Return to Midway

Call of Cthulhu RPG

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